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Example:
snap_group_duplicate snap_group=DBbackup new_snap_group=DBbackup_copy
Output:
Command completed successfully
Access Control:
User Category Permission Condition
Storage administrator Allowed N/A
Storage integration administrator Allowed N/A
Application administrator Conditionally Allowed At least one of the volumes in
the master Consistency Group is
mapped to a host or cluster
associated with the user and
Snapshot Group was created by
a server administrator
Security administrator Disallowed N/A
Read-only users Disallowed N/A
Technicians Disallowed N/A
Completion Codes:
v
SNAPSHOT_GROUP_BAD_NAME
Snapshot Group name does not exist.
v
MAX_VOLUMES_REACHED
Maximum number of volumes already defined
v
SNAPSHOT_GROUP_NAME_EXISTS
Snapshot Group name already exists.
Formatting a Snapshot Group
Formats a snapshot group
snap_group_format snap_group=SnapshotGroupName
Parameters:
Name Type Description Mandatory
snap_group Object name The snapshot group to
be formatted. Y
This command deletes the content of a snapshot group while maintaining its
snapshots mapping to the host. The format operation results with the following:
v
The snapshot of the formatted snapshot group are read-only
v The format operation has no impact on performance
v
The snapshot of the formatted snapshot group do not consume space
v
Reading from the snapshot of the formatted snapshot group always returns
zeroes
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